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Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Hear, hear.

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: When I started monitoring this debate last night, Deputy Varadkar was in the middle of mangling Irish history. If Edmund Burke ever said or wrote what has been attributed to him — "it is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph" — it was not in College Green or the Irish House of Commons, because he was never a member of it.

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Can Deputy O'Dowd not keep quiet for a moment?

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Burke definitely did say, however, "magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom", a virtue conspicuously absent in the Opposition parties since the general election.

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: I would be interested in learning more about the Fine Gael proposals on rural broadband, or what plans Deputy Gilmore has to transform the Labour Party.

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: At least the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service, of which I am a member, spent two and a half hours usefully yesterday questioning the Governor of the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator on the implications of turbulence on the world's markets, a matter with implications for Irish jobs. In contrast, this motion is simply a vehicle for maintaining a relentless...

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: ——similarly the Mahon tribunal about certain planning matters has ended up — one might wonder how — as a trial of Bertie Ahern, complete with a Ken Starr style special prosecutor. A star witness protected by the tribunal has sought, with a good deal less wit than Beaumarchais over 200 years ago in France, to maintain that it is not corrupt to give money, only to receive it.

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Guided and prompted by a journalist friend, reputedly familiar with Colombia and a variety of passports, as well with the many highways and byways of Irish politics, the witness is a vehicle for floating all sorts of hypotheses in the hope that an investigative trawl will throw up something. Then when documents are circulated, they are promptly leaked to this journalist or other journalists....

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Any reasonable person will understand the difficulty the Taoiseach has in constructing in perfect good faith the rationale for every lodgement in his accounts, 13 years ago.

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: The Opposition Deputies are great democrats, are they not?

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: When I was preparing in the last week the submission of my campaign accounts to the Standards in Public Office Commission, I came across a substantial lodgement only three months ago that was not a donation that I could not immediately remember or explain until I found a file which showed me it was a combination of my constituency office allowance and a telephone allowance. This debate is not...

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: The Taoiseach is mentioned in the European press, which Fine Gael and Labour MEPs clearly do not or are unable to read, as a possible candidate for President of the European Council. He has been invited to address the US Congress. The attempt to bring him down does no service whatsoever to this country and reflects poorly on the leadership substance of Deputies Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore,...

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Just yesterday, I was talking with former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. I want to see no more good governments brought down by synthetic pseudo-ethical furores, like the passport nonsense of the past 24 hours. The Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party will stand with its leader, the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, and, with its Green Party and Progressive Democrats partners and Independent support,...

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Why will the Members not listen to people with respect?

Tribunals of Inquiry: Motion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: They are no angels.

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Question 163: To ask the Taoiseach the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which were legislation wholly or mainly required by Ireland's EU obligations, which were partly so required, and which had no significant or minimal reference to EU legislation; and if in the first two cases Ireland had significant...

Written Answers — Statutory Instruments: Statutory Instruments (30 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of statutory instruments issued by the Government in 2007; and the number of same that were issued in order to implement EU legislation or decisions. [1296/08]

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which were legislation wholly or mainly required by Ireland's EU obligations, which were partly so required, and which had no significant or minimal reference to EU legislation; and if in the first two cases...

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by her Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which were legislation wholly or mainly required by Ireland's EU obligations, which were partly so required, and which had no significant or minimal reference to EU legislation; and if in the first two cases...

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Martin Mansergh: Question 533: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which were legislation wholly or mainly required by Ireland's EU obligations, which were partly so required, and which had no significant or minimal reference to EU legislation; and if in the first two cases Ireland had...